Word: armfuls
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...Chinese faces, not a single foreigner appears. Inside, the sisters work with some 35 foreign designers, dressed as if ready for a night out in New York City. Fiona, in a blousy navy silk jacket and sky-high heels, balances an Hermčs Birkin in the crook of her arm as she makes adjustments on samples of raincoats. Tia, in a silvery bolero thrown over a gray cotton tank and white pants, is finishing up a resort collection inspired by Lulamae Barnes, the poor Southern child bride who goes on to become Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Bouquets...
True, the University boasts few students at the front lines of these wars. The poorer kids are being sent to die in our place. But though it may not be a matter of life or death for us, the long arm of war has reached deep inside the ivory tower...
...from Sudan's oil fields. Beijing has blocked the threat of U.N. sanctions against Sudan's regime and protects it in other ways. But with the bodies piling up in Darfur, would China, which abstained in the Security Council vote on a peacekeeping force, try to twist Khartoum's arm to accept U.N. troops? Probably not. "They tend to see this whole problem in terms of economic investments rather than human rights," says Suliman Baldo, Africa Program Director at International Crisis Group (ICG), an NGO that aims to help prevent conflict. At the same time, says Baldo, "you feel that...
Indeed, companies as diverse as Unilever and DaimlerChrysler have used neuromarketing. Viacom Brand Solutions, the commercial arm of MTV Networks, for instance, late last year had Neurosense study how viewers digest programming and ads. It looked at nine regions of the brain that control such functions as attraction, long- and short-term memory and understanding. One counterintuitive result: commercials generated more activity in eight of those nine cortical regions than the programs did, indicating that ads do register with viewers. But programming dominated the ninth area, which controls absorption - indeed, viewers were so absorbed by the programs that the other...
...shot very badly,” Farrar said. “Their goalie made some decent saves, but we also tended to throw in the area where he is more likely to get an arm. It just can’t continue...